When Francois Ozon embarked on the daunting big-screen adaptation of Albert Camus’ “The Stranger” — considered one of France’s literary jewels for the last 80 years — he wanted to give it a contemporary resonance. And not by setting in present times, but rather by contextualizing the story, which unfolds in the early 1940s and […]
Francois Ozon on Adapting Albert Camus’ ‘The Stranger’: ‘I Wanted to Make It With Today’s Perspective of French Algeria and Colonization’ (EXCLUSIVE)
